Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Poems of the Language
I think what poetry does is it uses words as their most precise and their most suggestive. One word out of place, and the poem's dead. I mean, poetry would not exist without that care with words. That becomes such a critical i think that's one work for our society,. right? Civic civi oneo the duties of thet of the writer, o the poet, is an to use words with precision. You know, let me quote, you know, the the end of bosbon. Sunlight by hene. And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the mial bin. How simple and pure. B i give
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